The some $420 billion in defense spending proposed for 2006 gives the Pentagon a nearly 5 percent increase, putting emphasis on reshaping the military to fight terror. The budget does not include the billions spent for war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Check it out: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...4489545&sourceC ode=RSS

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source:

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
By Rev. Martin Luther King
4 April 1967
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html

P.S.

This is the speech that got Dr. King murdered!

The Martin Luther King Conspiracy: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKconExp.html

Side note:

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

-- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Abraham Lincoln said this? So true, Mr. Lincoln, so true. What is really brings this home is when he says," and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people.."